"In Texas, more training hours are required to be a hairdresser than a cop."
-- Arthur Rizer
It's an interesting article over at 'Hotair' which I would recommend a read (5 minute commentary).
Basically, Rizer brings up the era we live in....where police members are heavily recruited from the military....bring their craft with them, and you end up in a metropolitan area or small town....with some military-assault police who attempt to act like regular cops.
On training? For a small town unit....in most states, it's a weekend-training thing....you do a couple of weekends and 'test'....to get a certificate which allows you to be a small-town policeman.
I would agree....for about 90-percent of what the craft involves in a low-intensity town....'deputy-Joe' is adequate enough for the job.
In a town of 10,000? You probably need something more than 'deputy-Joe'.
But there's no real enthusiasm to change the system presently. So we will simply learn to survive...with crappy or marginal security guys pretending to be regular police.
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And remember training and maintenance are always the first things cut in a time of a tight budget.
From the column:
* "...in poor communities, the result has been the strange dynamic of “over-policing and under-protection” described by the criminologist David Kennedy, in which police are hypervigilant about petty offenses but unresponsive to more serious criminal activity."
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June, 2022 -- anybody earning less than us$52,000 annually is poor.
Next month, that raises another few thousand.
This time next year, I need us$140,000 to be poor...
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